diet

1. 1.

   follow a regimen or a diet, as for health reasons

   “He has high blood pressure and must stick to a low-salt diet”

   Broaderfast
2. 2.

   eat sparingly, for health reasons or to lose weight

   Broaderfast

Other forms of diet

plural

diets·

past tense

dieted·

present participle

dieting·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about diet

What does diet mean?

diet means "a prescribed selection of foods". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in diet?

diet has 2 syllables: di-et. The stress falls on "di". In IPA it is /ˈdaɪət/.

What is another word for diet?

Close synonyms include dieting. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is diet a common word?

diet is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.